On January 21, Microsoft officially announced the new features that would be included in Windows 10. While you’ll have to wait for the release to enjoy most of the new features, you can take advantage of the new Windows 10 Start menu today.

1月21日，Microsoft正式宣布了Windows 10中将包含的新功能。虽然您必须等待该版本才能使用大多数新功能，但您可以立即使用新的Windows 10“开始”菜单。

It appears that many antivirus programs are listing this as an adware. In our testing we didn’t find ads… but we’re going to pull the article from the newsletter just to be safe.

似乎许多防病毒程序都将其列为广告软件。 在我们的测试中，我们没有找到广告…但是为了安全起见，我们将从新闻通讯中删除该文章。

It’s not a very high quality app anyway, so you aren’t missing much. We shouldn’t have written this article in the first place.

无论如何，这不是一个高质量的应用程序，因此您不会错过太多。 我们不应该首先写这篇文章。

We’ve previously shown you how to get the classic Start menu back in Windows 8, including the use of a free tool called ViStart. We will be using ViStart in this article with some additional skins to create a Windows 10-like Start menu. Download ViStart and run the program. It doesn’t install like other programs. The executable file you download is also the file you use to run the program. The first time you run the program, it creates a “ViStart” directory in the “AppData” folder, which we will access later to install the Windows 10 Start menu skins.

前面我们已经向您展示了如何在Windows 8中恢复经典的“开始”菜单，包括如何使用名为ViStart的免费工具。 本文将在其他一些皮肤上使用ViStart来创建类似Windows 10的“开始”菜单。 下载ViStart并运行程序。 它不会像其他程序一样安装。 您下载的可执行文件也是用于运行程序的文件。 首次运行该程序时，它将在“ AppData”文件夹中创建一个“ ViStart”目录，稍后我们将访问该目录以安装Windows 10“开始”菜单皮肤。

If you opened ViStart after installing it, right-click the ViStart icon that was added to the system tray and select “Exit” to close the program.

如果在安装ViStart后将其打开，请右键单击添加到系统托盘中的ViStart图标，然后选择“退出”以关闭程序。

NOTE: You may notice that when you exited ViStart, the Start orb on the Taskbar disappeared. This seems to be a minor bug. You can still access the Start screen by pressing the Windows key. You can get the Start orb back by logging out and back in or by restarting your computer.

注意：您可能会注意到，退出ViStart时，任务栏上的Start orb消失了。 这似乎是一个小错误。 您仍然可以通过按Windows键访问“开始”屏幕。 您可以通过注销然后重新登录或重新启动计算机来恢复“启动”球。

Download the Windows 10 Start menu skins (a .rar file) to the same directory as the executable file. You can save it wherever you want to; it’s just easier to keep track of if it’s in the same directory as the executable file.

下载在Windows 10开始菜单的外观(一个.rar文件)到同一目录中的可执行文件。 您可以将其保存在任何位置。 跟踪它是否与可执行文件位于同一目录中更容易。

Unzip the .rar file using an extraction program that can handle .rar files, such as 7-Zip.

使用可以处理.rar文件的提取程序(例如7-Zip)解压缩.rar文件。

Open the “Windows10 startmenu” directory you extracted.

打开您提取的“ Windows10 startmenu”目录。

Select the four directories in the “Windows10 startmenu” directory and copy them.

选择“ Windows10 startmenu”目录中的四个目录并复制它们。

Press the Windows key + R to open the “Run” dialog box. Type the following line into the “Open” edit box and click “OK.”

按Windows键+ R打开“运行”对话框。 在“打开”编辑框中键入以下行，然后单击“确定”。

%apdata%\ViStart\_skins

％apdata％\ ViStart \ _skins

Paste the four directories you copied into the “_skins” directory.

将复制的四个目录粘贴到“ _skins”目录中。

Go back to the directory containing the downloaded skins you previously copied and copy the “English.xml” file.

返回包含先前复制的下载皮肤的目录，然后复制“ English.xml”文件。

Open the “Languages” directory by pressing the Windows key + R to open the “Run” dialog box. Type the following line into the “Open” edit box and click “OK.”

通过按Windows键+ R打开“运行”对话框，打开“语言”目录。 在“打开”编辑框中键入以下行，然后单击“确定”。

%apdata%\ViStart\Languages

％apdata％\ ViStart \语言

We recommend you rename the original version of the “English.xml” file before copying the new file into this directory. To do this, click twice slowly (not a quick double-click) on the file name, making it editable, and change the file name.

我们建议您在将新文件复制到此目录之前，重命名“ English.xml”文件的原始版本。 为此，请在文件名上缓慢单击两次(而不是快速双击)，使其可编辑，然后更改文件名。

NOTE: You can also press F2 to rename the file.

注意：您也可以按F2重命名文件。

Once you’ve renamed the original file, copy the new one into the directory.

重命名原始文件后，将新文件复制到目录中。

To make the Start menu look like Windows 10, right-click on the ViStart icon in the system tray and select “Options” from the popup menu.

要使“开始”菜单看起来像Windows 10，请右键单击系统托盘中的ViStart图标，然后从弹出菜单中选择“选项”。

The “Control Panel” dialog box displays. On the “Style” screen, select a style from the “Which start menu would you like?” drop-down list. The “Windows10” options are labeled as such.

显示“控制面板”对话框。 在“样式”屏幕上，从“您想要哪个开始菜单？”中选择一种样式。 下拉列表。 这样标记了“ Windows10”选项。

You can also select the style of the Start orb you want from the “What start orb would you like?” drop-down list.

您还可以从“您想要什么起始球？”中选择所需起始球的样式。 下拉列表。

Click “Configure” to access a screen allowing you to specify what you want to see on the Start menu.

单击“配置”访问一个屏幕，使您可以指定要在“开始”菜单上看到的内容。

The “Desktop” screen allows you to specify how the Start button and the Windows key behaves, whether to show ViStart on the system tray and start ViStart when Windows starts. You can also change how the Windows 8 features work. Note that if you change anything in the “How should the Windows 8 features work” section, you must restart Windows to have the changes take effect.

通过“桌面”屏幕，您可以指定开始按钮和Windows键的行为，是否在系统托盘上显示ViStart，以及在Windows启动时启动ViStart。 您还可以更改Windows 8功能的工作方式。 请注意，如果您在“ Windows 8功能应如何工作”部分中进行了任何更改，则必须重新启动Windows才能使更改生效。

The “About” screen tells you a bit about ViStart and lists the currently chosen skin. You can also check for updates to the current skin.

“关于”屏幕会告诉您有关ViStart的一些信息，并列出当前选择的皮肤。 您也可以检查当前皮肤的更新。

To close the “Control Panel” dialog box, click the “X” button in the upper-right corner.

要关闭“控制面板”对话框，请单击右上角的“ X”按钮。

Now, you have a Windows 10-like Start menu, combining elements of the classic Start menu and the Windows 8 Start screen.

现在，您将拥有一个类似于Windows 10的“开始”菜单，结合了经典“开始”菜单和Windows 8“开始”屏幕的元素。

You can also install ViStart and these Windows 10 skins in Windows 7 and even XP.

您还可以在Windows 7甚至XP中安装ViStart和这些Windows 10外观。

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/208296/how-to-get-a-windows-10-style-start-menu-in-windows-8.1/